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Nuruosmaniye Mosque
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Nuruosmaniye Mosque
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The construction of the Nuruosmaniye Mosque was started by Sultan Mahmud I in 1748 and completed by Sultan Osman III in 1755. It's a typical Baroque and Rococo style mosque which was a very popular architecture of 1700's within the Ottoman Empire. The mosque was built on one of the seven hills of Istanbul by a Greek minority architect named Simeon and Mustafa Aga.
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Istanbul
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5 out of 2 votes
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slavica on Tuesday May 08th, 2007 10:24 PM
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